Internet, tablets and teacher shortage for the new school year
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It is not only computer engineers that we are short of in Hungary at the moment. With less than one month until school begins in September, Hungarian education still needs about 2000 teachers. Pénzcentrum.hu checked the current job offers and got to an unsettling conclusion.
The new school year starts on the 3rd of September, in less than a month, yet many schools are still looking for new members for their staff. Approximately 2000 positions are still open, and the problem not only affects the public schools but alternative educational institutes as well.
Teachers wanted
As we reported already, there are fewer and fewer teachers. According to Közigállás, a public service job portal created by the government, schools are looking for more than 2000 teachers all across the country. The exact number is 2133, but that also includes openings for special needs teachers and librarians.
If the search is narrowed down to teachers with a main subject, we still get 1186 results – that is how many teachers are needed at the moment.
There are vacancies for mathematics and anything teachers (59), PE plus anything (50), and even for English and any other subject (36).
They are looking for more than 300 teachers only in Budapest.
Pénzcentrum.hu brings some examples from the capital. In certain schools, there is still an English, a history, a mathematics and a German teacher missing.
Not only public schools are affected
Alternative and foundation schools, like the Budapest School, are also still searching for new teachers. The Hungarian Waldorf Association is currently advertising 48 positions. They explained that for them it is even more difficult to find new professionals, as they prefer to hire people specially trained for Waldorf-pedagogy.
Capital vs countryside
Although the issue concerns the whole country, it is still more easily manageable in Budapest. Here one teacher can be sent over to another school, for example. However, as Zsuzsa Szabó, president of the Teachers’ Union (PSZ) explained: “If a teacher in the countryside has to commute between many towns, that is very different. It consumes a lot of time, the public transport is often not the best, and thus the commuting teacher gets exhausted, annoyed or burnt out.”
